Dear Mr Innes, I have disposed of Mr Hutchinson’s Stars except for this one chapter. I found when I wrote to him that he had not meant to contribute a regular course but miscellaneous papers now and then. I want however to get the Engineering recollections in America into this volume. They are 7 but short, very entertaining and one may be doubled. The story is short too. I have not got Miss Sewell yet, but ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I desired the proof of the first chapter of the Summer on the Apennines to be sent at once to you - If you are moving about perhaps the best way would be for you to send a card with your address early every months to the printers

Messrs Clay Bread Street Hill London EC

Will you have the payment every month or at the end of the half year, and how shall it be made

Yours truly C ... continue reading

Dear Madam,

As you kindly consent to look at the tale of child life in Italy that I mentioned to you, I now send you the three first chapters (it has twelve in all) of 'The Angel of Viareggio'. I hope the thin paper will not inconvenience you, but I shall not repeat the experiment & the rest of the MS. shall be sent to you on foolscap.

I enclose a post card & stamps & trusting ... continue reading

Signora Villari’s graceful story has been safely received, and shall be commenced in January 1880

C M Yonge

Dear Madam

Would you be so kind, in returning the proofs of ‘the angel of Viareggio’ as to address them direct to the printer

Messrs Clay & Taylor Bread Street Hill London EC

If they are addressed to the Editor, they remain at the office till a parcel is sent to me, and so we get them too late to profit by your corrections

Yours truly C M Yonge

My dear Miss Gatty,

The Signora Linda Villari wife to Professor Villari at Florence sent me this pretty little sketch of a real favourite bird. It is too youthful for the Packet, but I think you will like to open a connection with her, as she writes prettily and freshly. I enclose a card she sent with her address. She wrote a very pretty story once for the Packet called the Angel of Viareggio.

I hope you ... continue reading

Dear Madam

I hardly know how to answer you, for the having had the Angel of Viareggio is first a reason for not being able to take another story in the same line. I think however that Griffith and Farran- or Cassell or Routledge- or Aunt Judy’s Magazine would be glad of a child’s story with a little foreign colouring.

I believe Signora Linda Villari is English not American, but I do not know

Yours truly C M Yonge